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A poem with a shape that suggests its content.
What is a concrete poem?
A story, often about adventure and love, told in song form.
What is a ballad?
Two consecutive lines of verse with end rhymes
What is a couplet?
Repetition of initial consonant sounds used to draw attention to certain words or ideas, to imitate sounds, and to create musical effects.
What is alliteration?
A reference to a well-known place, event, person, work of art, or other work of literature.
What is an allusion?
Poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern or meter.
What is free verse poetry?
A poem that reflects on death or a solemn theme.
What is an elegy?
A long, serious narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero.
What is an epic?
Writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
A figure of speech existing of an extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses
What is imagery?
Figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else.
What is a metaphor?
Words and expressions that should not be taken literally and have meaning in a particular language or region.
What is an idiom?
Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
What is a lyric poem?
A rhythmical pattern, created by the number of stresses or beats in each line.
What is meter?
A story told in verse, often having the elements of a short story including characters, conflict, and plot.
What is a narrative poem?
Figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
One of the three major types of literature distinguished by its use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language.
What is poetry?
A formal lyric poem with a serious theme written to honor someone or something.
What is an ode?
Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. Use lowercase letters to indicate this.
What is rhyme scheme?
Paragraph is to prose as _____________is to poetry.
What is a stanza?
The beat of words in a poem.
What is rhythm?
Fourteen line lyric poem often written about love.
What is a sonnet?
Figure of speech that compares two unlike things use the words “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
The writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject. It can often be described by a single adjective.
What is the poet’s tone?